I don't understand Facebook full stop but surely if you want the ABC news you go to the ABC website. Would be great if we could get them to fuck off out of australia completely.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Thursday, 18 February 2021 06:15 (three years ago) link
This feels like a genuinely interesting development? Like o dunno but I feel this could really fuck up Facebook and drive audiences back toward traditional news sources. Why did I hear the phrase “narrator voice” as soon as I typed that sentence.
― the least famous person you were surprised to discover (emsworth), Thursday, 18 February 2021 06:25 (three years ago) link
Hard to imagine anything at all being of less concern than this
Communications Minister Paul Fletcher says he has spoken to the administrator of North Shore Mums, whose Facebook page has also been blocked, "and that is of significant concern"— Michael Koziol (@michaelkoziol) February 18, 2021
the Federal Minister for Communications has probably already refunded the ABC's shortwave disaster/emergency regional broadcasting today and is just working right down the bottom of the list though
― stilt in the wings (sic), Thursday, 18 February 2021 07:00 (three years ago) link
Arent NSM one of those antivax nobs?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 19 February 2021 05:31 (three years ago) link
My friend's online vintage store is blocked by this too for some reason. She's not bitching about it to a senator though.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 19 February 2021 05:32 (three years ago) link
So: Facebook's nuclear-option has really badly distracted from something really serious and significant. Google has entered into an agreement to *pay cash* to spread Infowars-grade misinformation about climate and energy. My post -> https://t.co/TbmxciyBN4And a quick 🧵...— Ketan Joshi (@KetanJ0) February 19, 2021
― stilt in the wings (sic), Sunday, 21 February 2021 03:36 (three years ago) link
A rideshare driver terminated an active ride because one of his passengers refused to wear a mask. The passenger ended up punching the driver, grabbing his phone and trying to steal it, and then upon exiting peppersprayed the driver from outside the car.
Here's how Uber responded:
The fundraiser was organized by Cyan Banister, an early investor in Uber who was appalled by the amount of money Uber gave to the driver after the incident."Uber then failed to step up to take care of this Uber driver to help him with lost wages and cleaning from having pepper spray chemicals sprayed into the fabric of his car," a statement read on the fundraising page. "They instead began with only offering $20 in compensation for having pepper spray covering his interior fabric. They then upped it to $120 in compensation but this does not come close to the expenses needed to have a professional car detailing to try and remove the strong chemicals of pepper spray and also the lost wages from not being able to work."
"Uber then failed to step up to take care of this Uber driver to help him with lost wages and cleaning from having pepper spray chemicals sprayed into the fabric of his car," a statement read on the fundraising page. "They instead began with only offering $20 in compensation for having pepper spray covering his interior fabric. They then upped it to $120 in compensation but this does not come close to the expenses needed to have a professional car detailing to try and remove the strong chemicals of pepper spray and also the lost wages from not being able to work."
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 12 March 2021 03:59 (three years ago) link
Jeff Bezos will soon be the owner of a $500 million superyacht he purchased two years ago, and whose construction is nearing completion, according to Bloomberg. The yacht will be 417 feet long, include several decks, and will also come with its own “support” yacht, complete with helipad.In other words, this yacht—among the largest ever built in the Netherlands—comes with its own yacht.Bezos is just one billionaire among many to recently “splurge” on a superyacht. Steven Spielberg is reportedly trading in his modest $158 million yacht for one from the same company currently manufacturing Bezos’s. And overall the “market’s been roaring,” a superyacht appraisal expert told Bloomberg, even (and especially) during the pandemic. Bloomberg explains:Covid wasn’t a factor when Bezos put in his order a couple years ago, but it has contributed to the industry’s boom. With galas canceled and land borders closed, yachting suddenly seemed the best option for private, socially distanced leisure and a good way to escape from the prying eyes of the public that might look askance at wealthy overindulgence during difficult times.
In other words, this yacht—among the largest ever built in the Netherlands—comes with its own yacht.
Bezos is just one billionaire among many to recently “splurge” on a superyacht. Steven Spielberg is reportedly trading in his modest $158 million yacht for one from the same company currently manufacturing Bezos’s. And overall the “market’s been roaring,” a superyacht appraisal expert told Bloomberg, even (and especially) during the pandemic. Bloomberg explains:
Covid wasn’t a factor when Bezos put in his order a couple years ago, but it has contributed to the industry’s boom. With galas canceled and land borders closed, yachting suddenly seemed the best option for private, socially distanced leisure and a good way to escape from the prying eyes of the public that might look askance at wealthy overindulgence during difficult times.
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 10 May 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
I suspect part of the mental justification of owning a super yacht is as an insurance policy against the breakdown of social order.
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Monday, 10 May 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
i'm reading https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52019031-notes-from-an-apocalypse right now and there's a good chapter on that
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 10 May 2021 22:14 (two years ago) link
for half a billion dollars you shouldn't have to take a zodiac to the support yacht whenever you want to fly out
― mookieproof, Monday, 10 May 2021 22:33 (two years ago) link
Mr Choppy
― Take, eat; this is my body. What I got, you got to get (the table is the table), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link
Facebook will no longer take down posts claiming that Covid-19 was man-made or manufactured, a company spokesperson told POLITICO on Wednesday, a move that acknowledges the renewed debate about the virus’ origins.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 27 May 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
how tone deaf is this social media team? this is dystopian, nightmare shit
Amazon's Leila Brown used her background in sports medicine and her passion in alternative therapies to create a space where our employees could focus on their mental well-being. https://t.co/bvk2bw9Lke pic.twitter.com/cEQhsTH0Od— Amazon News (@amazonnews) May 26, 2021
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 May 2021 19:41 (two years ago) link
very good thank you. im jacking off in one of these right now while playing the knight rider theme on my phone https://t.co/AlFIVlttVR— wint (@dril) May 27, 2021
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Thursday, 27 May 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1aHabVf.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 27 May 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
I'm sure plenty of people have already thought of this but what came to mind:
http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/suicide_booth_futurama.gif
― silverfish, Thursday, 27 May 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
Hi we’re the portal of record for all information, also we think this is not humiliatingly badly done pic.twitter.com/GGUlZ1pbJd— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) June 8, 2021
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 08:39 (two years ago) link
Regulators told Amazon that its ruthless quotas were injuring workers. Amazon just said it won't be changing anything. Its plan instead: a donation and a task force!https://t.co/4eD667Tl1j— Andy Donohue (@add) June 11, 2021
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 12 June 2021 00:05 (two years ago) link
The new Apple Watch commercial featuring real 911 calls might’ve landed a bit better if the people making them weren’t regularly launching themselves out the factory windows
― frogbs, Monday, 3 January 2022 22:25 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/13/capitol-attack-subpoenas-google-facebook-twitter-reddit-january-6
The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack subpoenaed Twitter, Meta, Alphabet and Reddit on Thursday for records related to the 6 January insurrection, as it seeks to review data that could potentially incriminate the Trump White House.Facebook is part of Meta and Google is part of Alphabet.
Facebook is part of Meta and Google is part of Alphabet.
Far from the worst thing about either, but good God the renaming of these companies is so mindboggling stupid and irritating.
― peace, man, Thursday, 13 January 2022 23:46 (two years ago) link
Is anywhere on ilx hosting the "let's clown the metaverse video" conversation? Lots of pointing and laughing on twitter.
― emil.y, Thursday, 20 January 2022 18:35 (two years ago) link
ysi?
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 January 2022 20:48 (two years ago) link
Twitter enabling NFT losers even more than they had previously lol
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 20 January 2022 20:48 (two years ago) link
Civil War II won't be fought between MAGA and liberals but people who paid $300k for a racist caricature vs. people who think those people are troglodytes.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 20 January 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
this video?
This is the #metaverse... A live rave happening right now in @decentraland for the upcoming @LightbulbmanNFT release by #BjarneMelgaard. Music from @feedelity @prins_thomas @mightbetwins #NFTdrop #rave #virtualevent #NFTCommunity pic.twitter.com/aC4WYRbgH9— Alex Moss (@alexmoss) January 20, 2022
― in the time of NFTs I bought a monkey (rob), Thursday, 20 January 2022 20:53 (two years ago) link
Yeah, that one. It's just... THIS is what the facebook billions are being spent on? Sub-Second Life garbage for incredibly boring NFT parties?
― emil.y, Thursday, 20 January 2022 20:57 (two years ago) link
yeah it's embarrassing...or it should be. Predicting what happens in tech is pretty futile, but everything metaverse is so strongly reminiscent of the dot-com bubble to me, it's hard not to assume this is all going to be dead in a year
― in the time of NFTs I bought a monkey (rob), Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:00 (two years ago) link
textbook wishful thinking of course, but yeah it just looks so bathetic and unappealing
Third Life
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:11 (two years ago) link
feels way more divorced from reality than the dot-com bubble
― ciderpress, Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link
Ha that's a good point. I was reacting more to the wave of corporations rushing to declare their participation in something that has no proven utility yet, but you're right, websites could at least be mundanely informative
― in the time of NFTs I bought a monkey (rob), Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
That laughably awful video makes me think back to all of those (understandably! justifiably!) concerned articles about pervs taking creep shots with their Google Glass because they were going to be so ubiquitous in mere months!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
They've been trying to make AR/VR/etc. happen for almost 30 years now (the first Wired I ever read had a big thing on VR in... 1995? '96?) and it's just a bust over and over. Nobody wants an extra layer of shit on top of buying their morning coffee.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:22 (two years ago) link
damn this is grim: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/28/suicide-hotline-silicon-valley-privacy-debates-00002617
― rob, Friday, 28 January 2022 16:15 (two years ago) link
"META" stock down 26% today. Hundreds of billions of dollars in paper value wiped out all because iPhones made it harder for advertisers to follow you around the internet. Fucking wild.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 3 February 2022 21:16 (two years ago) link
anyone here read Tim Hwang's Subprime Attention Crisis?
― rob, Thursday, 3 February 2022 21:27 (two years ago) link
snap down 25% during the day (presumably on the basis that they suffer the same problems as meta due to ios 14.5) and now up 55% after hours having reported results. (pinterest down 10%, up 20% a/h on results.) nobody knows anything.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 February 2022 22:32 (two years ago) link
breh
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 February 2022 22:45 (two years ago) link
Pinterest is so weird, it only exists for me now as an annoying site that pops up in Google image searches.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 3 February 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
there were people who built entire careers on pinterest traffic. a lot of people!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 February 2022 23:02 (two years ago) link
I've never quite understood Pinterest's business model, but I'm told that interior designers use it or something? Pin it!
Anyway, their fierce gatekeeping kept me from ever even looking around the site (without an account), so now I too just find it a mysterious annoyance
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 February 2022 23:04 (two years ago) link
I know a guy who got rich off pinterest but he’s one of the main shareholders so idk
― mh, Thursday, 3 February 2022 23:12 (two years ago) link
They built a brand-new building a few years ago on Brannan Street and now I understand they're giving all or most of it up
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 February 2022 23:15 (two years ago) link
apparently it used to be a great place to work, relative to other big tech companies. obviously the product is moribund now, but it's also had a bunch of bias/abuse scandals a la amazon/uber.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 February 2022 23:16 (two years ago) link
I only got pinterest once we had to do home renovations. It's a really good way to keep track of stuff you like and also find ideas. I get why it generates ad revenue, because we would be like "we like this maple colored vanity cabinet" or whatever, and then you could find other similar maple colored vanity cabinets, save them, possibly follow through and purchase one, etc.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 4 February 2022 01:04 (two years ago) link
Also you have your vanity cabinets, your shower fixtures, your tiles, your mirrors etc all on one "board" and can move them around and put them next to each other to see how they look together. At the same time, it's really *only* useful to me for something like that, like I can't come up with any regular use case for it. I guess someone who is exceptionally into clothes could use it for that.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 4 February 2022 01:09 (two years ago) link
Pinterest does a weirdly bad job of generating money from its users, given the dominant use case is exactly what you say, ie deciding what to buy
$PINS : A Love StoryStarting with the NumbersLatest Quarter ARPU (North America):$FB: $48.03 per MAU$TWTR: $23.65 per DAU$SNAP: $7.37 per DAU$PINS: $3.99 per MAUPinterest is in the first inning of monetizing it’s user base - pretty straightforward /1— Ragnar Danneskjöld (@RagnarSkjold) July 23, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 February 2022 01:12 (two years ago) link
i used to use it for briefing graphic designers on what sort of style to go for. very easy to just google a bunch of stuff that was in the right ballpark and have it all pinned to a page.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 February 2022 01:13 (two years ago) link
was just clicking through tech stocks on yahoo and realized Fiverr is still valued at almost $3 billion. Lol. Remember Fiverr? I didn't until just now.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 4 February 2022 01:27 (two years ago) link